Joshua Schäuble

Bio: Joshua Schäuble is an academic researcher. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 18 citations.

Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces

Abstract: The present volume “Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces” is the follow-up publication of the same-titled symposium that was held in 2016 at the University of Graz and the twelfth volume of the publication series of the Institute for Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE). It is the result of a successful collaboration between members of the Centre for Information Modelling at the University of Graz, the Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network DiXiT, a EC Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, and the IDE. All articles have undergone a peer reviewing process and are published in Open Access. They document the current state of research on design, application and implications of both user and machine interfaces in the context of digital scholarly editions. The editors of the volume are grateful to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions for enabling not only the symposium in 2016 but also the publication of the present volume with their financial support. Special thanks are also due to the staff of the Centre for Information Modelling, above all Georg Vogeler, who contributed to the successful organisation and completion of the symposium and this volume with their ideas and continuous support. Furthermore we want to thank all authors as well as all peer reviewers for the professional cooperation during the publication process. Last but not least we want to thank the many people involved in creating the present volume: Barbara Bollig (Trier) for language corrections and formal suggestions, Bernhard Assmann and Patrick Sahle (Cologne) for support and advises during the typese ing process, Selina Galka (Graz) for verifying and archiving (archive.org) all referenced URLs in January 2018, Julia Sorouri (Cologne) for the design of the cover as well as the artist Franz Konrad (Graz), who provided his painting “Desktop” (www.franzkonrad.com/gallery/desktop-2008-2010/) as cover image. We hope you enjoy reading and get as much intrigued by the topic “Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces” as we did.

Encodings and Visualisations of Text Processes across Document Borders

Abstract: -this essay exemplifies first inroads into interfacing a digitally born genetic edition (instanced by Virginia Woolf, “A Sketch of the Past” [1939–41; unfinished and fragmentary]). A basic requirement for digital genetic editing is to establish the records of text variation within individual documents and to concatenate these records in serial progression to trace and represent the genetic text processes across document borders. Coordinating the mark-up of revisional layering in individual documents within one encoding system establishes a synoptic record of the cross-document progression, stratified commonly into levels correlated to the carrier documents. Guidelines for genetic mark-up have been made available in the TEI P5v2 release. Their hands-on application to our sample material has resulted in some detailed critique and suggestions for modification. From capturing and marking-up the textual progression within each individual document of a series, we proceed to securing the continuity of the comprehensive digital record, and thus the permeability of the document border, by way of automatic collation and mark-up of the genetic text movements in the document interstice. The integrated digital record of a text progression across documents thereby effected carries in its mark-up the requisite information to visualise synoptically structured diachronic (genetic) text data under multiple perspectives. The interface visualisation as such must be realised through (sets of) visualisation software. From the construction-in-progress of one such set of modules, the essay demonstrates the design and describes the operation of one modular interface, a Diachronic Slider.

Refining our conceptions of ‘access’ in digital scholarly editing: Reflections on a qualitative survey on inclusive design and dissemination.

Abstract: In this paper we explore layered conceptions of access and accessibility as they relate to the theory and praxis of digital scholarly editing. To do this, we designed and disseminated a qualitative survey on five key themes: dissemination; Open Access and licensing; access to code; web accessibility; and diversity. Throughout the article we engage in cultural criticism of the discipline by sharing results from the survey, identifying how the community talks about and performs access, and pinpointing where improvements in praxis could be made. In the final section of this paper we reflect on different ways to utilize the survey results when critically designing and disseminating digital scholarly editions, propose a call to action, and identify avenues of future research.